{"id":2959,"date":"2013-01-14T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2019-06-12T16:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:38:16","slug":"so-thats-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"So, that&#8217;s done."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier this past week that I was entering a contest or two. First one is now deposited on the contest server.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award opened up for entries at 2300 local time. I was finishing some edits (God, please bless that wonderful publisher who told me I needed lots of work and all my honest friends) before hitting the &#8220;submit&#8221; button. \u00a0I made it.<\/p>\n<p>They are only taking the first 10,000 entries. I saw over 6,000 entries on the chat session. Given the math I&#8217;m glad I stayed up to submit tonight. I have a strange feeling they may be all full up tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beat. It&#8217;s hanging out around three degrees\u00a0Fahrenheit\u00a0at the moment. \u00a0I&#8217;m hungry and need to let the dogs out one more time. But it feels really good to have this done.  I will keep you posted about the results of the first round.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not done revising my book, but I just found out about the contest in the last two weeks and raced the clock, influenza, sleep deprivation and a couple of voice overs to make it to the finish line for entering this contest.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to trim over 16,000 words from the manuscript since I &#8220;finished&#8221; it last spring. I knew it was bloated but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p>More blogging soon, one contest deadline yet to meet. I want to give it another polish before that comes up. \u00a0Hope you all have a blessed day.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that read this far, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0oOb_DM0hAk\">bonus video on electric starter motors<\/a>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0oOb_DM0hAk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier this past week that I was entering a contest or two. First one is now deposited on the contest server. The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award opened up for entries at 2300 local time. I was finishing some <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=2959\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,7],"tags":[1279,167,1193,162,4491,216],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-writing","tag-amazon-breakthrough-novel-award","tag-commotion-in-the-pews","tag-farenheit","tag-joseph-courtemanche","tag-video","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}